The film is introduced as the preparatory stage for a future documentary
on Japanese "theme rooms", which enable couples to indulge in lovemaking
by the hour in an extravagant decor. The pretext of location research
emphasises the complexity of the relationship which the filmmaker is having
with the young man who is accompanying him, and the difficulty they themselves
encounter in entering these shrines of pleasure.

A young French girl arrives in Japan alone. She is met by a young man
who is to lead her to her father, on an island to the south of the
archipelago. Their trip is long and silent, they do not speak the
same language. Little by little, a kind of complicity develops between
them.